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Transcript of records is full of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes and the issuer gets angry when I inform them
I suggest requesting a copy of the transcript in whatever language the issuer writes best.
For some purposes, such as graduate admission to a foreign university, you may need to pay for a certified ...
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
You already gave the actual reason: to hide it from employers. Why? Because it is irrelevant.
Diplomas/grades from university are the same, for all students. Period. It does not matter how you ...
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
College degrees are not a tool for evaluating employment eligibility.
Despite the way it has been used in recent times, college diplomas are a certification of higher education in a particular ...
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Do I have to submit my high school transcript if "transcripts for all current and previous post-secondary study" are required?
No. Secondary refers to grades 7 through 12 in the US; Canada should be similar. It's called secondary because it comes after the primary grades K through 6. Junior high is usually grades 7 and 8. ...
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Can one really 'lose' old bad grades and get a fresh start?
That's not necessarily the impediment you may think. The institution where I taught would not accept nor transfer credit over ten years old. Pick one or two colleges you might attend, visit their ...
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What is H18 (Canada)?
H18 stands for Hiver 2018 (Winter 2018), that is, the current semester.
Similarly, E18 is Été 2018 (Summer 2018) and A18 is Automne 2018 (Fall 2018).
Source: I'm from Québec, and I recognize my ...
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
Since nobody seems to have mentioned it yet,
it is very likely illegal
In the US, at least, several laws (including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act) prohibit ...
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Transcript of records is full of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes and the issuer gets angry when I inform them
It sounds like you're in a non-English speaking country, and I assume that the reason you need an English-language transcript is for use in job or college applications to an English-speaking country. ...
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Redoing my bachelor’s degree for general specialisation and better GPA
If you were living in the same circumstances, what would you do?
If I were you, I would do a part-time Master's degree in Computer Science while working on a not-so-high salary job.
You will waste ...
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
It would mark people as having some type of disability, which the
university may not be allowed to disclose. Noting on the transcript that the student used extra time is equivalent to disclosing that ...
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
Revealing Disability Accommodations Is Against University Interests
Disability accommodations serve the interests of the University in a variety of ways, and anything that penalizes, prevents, or ...
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Why transcripts instead of degree certificates?
Most applicants for positions at US universities will have been educated in the US, so US hiring practices are based around the sorts of records that US universities provide. And US universities don'...
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PhD wanting to start another graduate degree program. Why do I need to submit undergraduate transcripts?
Look, you're in an unusual situation: a PhD holder and current professor going back for a lower degree in an unrelated field just for fun. You're going to run up against a bunch of apparently ...
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Should I retake my A minus class in my last semester?
TL;DR: Probably not worth it. Take something else and expand your horizons.
From a knowledge perspective, you're not getting anything out of this. You got an A- in the course -- on a transcript, that ...
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Redoing my bachelor’s degree for general specialisation and better GPA
In your CV consider listing these qualifications more like this:
2013 - Bachelor of Science in Computing Information Systems, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of ...
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My transcript has the wrong course names. How to fix this in PhD applications?
If at all possible you should get the issuing university to correct your transcript. Failing that, you should get a letter, signed by an authority, that explains the situation. The letter should come ...
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How to send your transcript directly from your US university to grad schools without the transcript office knowing which schools
If you're in the US, talk to your registrar about what we call a "Privacy Lock." It is pretty much a set of measures to apply should the students wish to remain private. Things as extreme as taking ...
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Should I retake my A minus class in my last semester?
I would actually consider doing this a negative.
One of the things I noticed when I started my PhD work is that the transition from undergraduate work can be a harsh one. Expectations soar, all of ...
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Why does an admissions committee need to look at the whole transcript?
The problem with GPA as a measure is that it just mixes together a bunch of different classes indiscriminately. Consider these three different students:
This student is pretty steady, but not great, ...
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Transcript of records is full of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes and the issuer gets angry when I inform them
Honestly, you need to pick battles that are worth fighting. Inconsistent capitalization of course titles, poor margins and poor line-spacing are not at all significant. Concentrate your energy where ...
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Is it normal for graduate degrees to be awarded through the graduate school rather than the individual college?
If this is for the US, note that there is no real "normal/standard" practice. Each university (or state system of universities) can have its own policy on such things. I'd guess that pretty ...
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How do employers verify academic transcripts?
This can be done in any number of ways depending on the country and the employer:
The employer might tell you to get the university to mail them a sealed envelope with the transcript
The employer ...
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Is there a better measure of undergraduate academic performance than GPA?
I believe that there cannot be any single numerical statistic or small set of such statistics that summarizes the nature of a student well.
The first reason for my assessment is that there are too ...
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Do I have to submit my high school transcript if "transcripts for all current and previous post-secondary study" are required?
No. Post secondary is undergraduate and beyond
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Why transcripts instead of degree certificates?
At the heart, the approach chosen by universities is because a piece of paper, however elaborate, can be forged. It is much more difficult to forge the transmission from one university's degree ...
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What makes a transcript official vs. unofficial?
An official transcript is usually sent under some sort of seal, with measures to ensure that the document has not been altered. When delivered to a student, it will usually be in a sealed envelope in ...
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My transcript has the wrong course names. How to fix this in PhD applications?
Do not alter a document issued by anyone else.
You haven't provided enough information for anyone to judge whether A, B and C will seem all that different from D, E and F to anyone reading your ...
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Transcript of records is full of grammatical/spelling/formatting mistakes and the issuer gets angry when I inform them
I would recommend going to his immediate supervisor. Whether that is the head of student affairs, the department chair or the dean, whoever signs his paycheck should be able to do something about this....
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Why don't universities reveal the extra time they give to students with disabilities when taking exams?
Just a minor sub-answer, but to my mind reiterating an important point: although the "school model" of assessment makes limited-time-exams a crucial player, this is artificial, almost entirely for ...
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How to justify quitting PhD because of a professor in statement of purpose?
I planning to drop out of a PhD program after one semester and apply
to another top university for a PhD program.
Not all universities allow applicants from current Ph.D students. Although not '...
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